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DEQ seeks input on sewage treatment plant
The Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is seeking public comments on a proposed sewage treatment plant. The proposed 39,900 gallons-per-day discharge would empty into Urbanna Creek at the head of a cove near Oakes Landing.

posted 09.10.2008

Battle lines form in ‘town versus condos’
It appears the Urbanna Town Council and condo developer Potomac Timber Investments are no closer to settling the zoning issue than they were on Sept. 12, 2007 when the condo developer filed the first of two lawsuits.

posted 09.10.2008

Flipped on Route 17: three-vehicle pileupA pickup towing a trailer loaded with two vehicles ran off the right side of southbound Route 17, lost control and overturned on Wednesday, September 3, about 9 a.m., according to Sergeant G. Mathias of the Virginia State Police.

posted 09.10.2008

Bracke pleads guilty to arson
Bracke admitted he set fire to the house he was living in on Mill Wharf Road in Wake on November 17, 2007. Judge William H. Shaw III will sentence Bracke, 62, on November 5 at 9:30 a.m. on the arson conviction, which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.